I get a lot of questions about risk to humans from milk
My view: pasteurization is made for this purpose - to kill viruses and bacteria. I do not believe there is anything unique to H5N1 that would enable it to โsurviveโ the process
My real concern is H5N1 rampantly spreading in mammals, where each transmission offers myriad opportunities to gain mutations that enable efficient infection of humans
The H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows may be much much more extensive than has been reported.
Nearly 40% of pasteurized milk tested from throughout the Midwest (38/150 samples) had evidence of H5N1 RNA.
To prevent a pandemic, we have to get this under control.
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